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Impact Stories: Prof. Martha Chen on Informal Economies, the Working Poor and Being an ‘Activist Academic’

Publication:

Academics Stand Against Poverty

Reporter:

Neely-Streit, Gabriel.

Description:

This ASAP Impact Story profiles Prof. Martha Chen, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. In 1997, Chen helped found Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), a global research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy.